Branching Rules for Splint Root Systems

Algebras and Representation Theory - A root system is splint if it is a decomposition into a union of two disjoint root systems. Examples of such root systems arise naturally in studying embeddings...     

阴离子型微乳液对火焰原子吸收法测铅增敏作用的研究与应用

研究了在空气－乙炔火焰中，阴离子型表面活性剂十二烷基硫酸钠（ＳＤＳ）组成的微乳液对铅原子化行为的影响。结果表明：在ＳＤＳ组成的微乳液存在下，铅的灵敏度提高了近６０％，比ＳＤＳ胶束存在下灵敏度也提高了２０％。方法用于黄铅和工业废水中铅的测定，结果令人满意。     

异质Stackelberg寡头竞争下创新产品技术许可策略研究

基于异质产品Stackelberg寡头竞争模型,建立了拥有新产品创新技术在位厂商与潜在竞争对手间的技术许可博弈模型.模型中假设潜在竞争对手可以接受许可,也可通过自我研发创新技术进入市场参与竞争.根据潜在竞争对手研发成本的高低,研究了创新厂商的最优两部制收费策略.研究结果表明:潜在竞争者总会接受创新技术许可,最优许可策略依赖于研发成本、市场参数以及产品的替代系数.     

养护条件对UHPC强度和毛细吸水性的影响

为优化超高性能混凝土(UHPC)预制构件养护工艺,研究了不同养护条件对UHPC强度和毛细吸水性的影响,并采用孔结构测试、热重分析和扫描电镜观察,对其机理进行了分析.结果表明:热养护显著提高了UHPC的7 d强度,这与加速火山灰反应有关,但高温和干热养护对其后期强度增大不利,甚至出现约3％的强度倒缩;不论何种养护,UHP...     

Metallic Free Carbon Nanotube Cluster Modified Screen Printed Electrodes for the Sensing of Nicotine in Artificial Saliva

We demonstrate that metallic free carbon nanotube cluster modified screen printed electrodes provide an advantageous sensing methodology for nicotine. The electrochemical oxidation of nicotine is possible at low potentials compared to other commercially available carbon electrodes. Using the carbon nanotube cluster modified screen printed electrodes a detection range of 10 to 1000 μM is possible with a limit of detection of 2 μM. The sensing protocol is shown to be viable in artificial saliva and is promising as a portable and rapid sensor for nicotine in oral fluid (saliva) in areas such as health/life insurance, instances where smoking is banned and also as a point of care test to help improve smoking quit rates.     

Interaction forces measured using AFM between colloids and surfaces coated with both dextran and protein

Both proteins and polysaccharides are biopolymers present on a bacterial surface that can simultaneously affect bacterial adhesion. To better understand how the combined presence of proteins and polysaccharides might influence bacterial attachment, adhesion forces were examined using atomic force microscopy (AFM) between colloids (COOH- or protein-coated) and polymer-coated surfaces (BSA, lysozyme, dextran, BSA+dextran and lysozyme+dextran) as a function of residence time and ionic strength. Protein and dextran were competitively covalently bonded onto glass surfaces, forming a coating that was 22-33% protein and 68-77% dextran. Topographic and phase images of polymer-coated surfaces obtained with tapping mode AFM indicated that proteins at short residence times (<1 s) were shielded by dextran. Adhesion forces measured between colloid and polymer-coated surfaces at short residence times increased in the order protein+dextran < or = protein < dextran. However, the adhesion forces for protein+dextran-coated surface substantially increased with longer residence times, producing the largest adhesion forces between polymer coated surfaces and the colloid over the longest residence times (50-100 s). It was speculated that with longer interaction times the proteins extended out from beneath the dextran and interacted with the colloid, leading to a molecular rearrangement that increased the overall adhesion force. These results show the importance of examining the effect of the combined adhesion force with two different types of biopolymers present and how the time of interaction affects the magnitude of the force obtained with two-polymer-coated surfaces.     

Construction of the Thermodynamic Jamming Limit for the Parking Process and Other Exclusion Schemes on {\mathbb Z}^{d}

We provide an explicit construction of the thermodynamic jamming limit for the parking process and other finite range exclusion schemes on . By means thereof, a strong law of large numbers for occupation densities is accomplished, and, amongst other results, the so called “super-exponential” (i.e. gamma) decay of pair correlation functions is established. Mathematics Subject Classification (1991): 60K99     

Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Gases: A Single-Point Ramped Imaging with T1 Enhancement (SPRITE) Study

A pure phase-encoding MRI technique, single-point ramped imaging withT₁enhancement, SPRITE, is introduced for the purpose of gas phase imaging. The technique utilizes broadband RF pulses and stepped phase encode gradients to produce images, substantially free of artifacts, which are sensitive to the gasT₁andT^*:₂relaxation times. Images may be acquired from gas phase species with transverse relaxation times substantially less than 1 ms. Methane gas images,¹H, were acquired in a phantom study. Sulfur hexafluoride,¹⁹F, images were acquired from a gas-filled porous coral sample. High porosity regions of the coral are observed in both the MRI image and an X-ray image. Sensitivity and resolution effects due to signal modulation during the time-efficient acquisition are discussed. A method to increase the image sensitivity is discussed, and the predicted improvement is shown through 1D images of the methane gas phantom.